Former Florida senator and governor Bob Graham has just addressed Florida’s delegates at a breakfast in Denver, in what appeared to be a endorsement of Barack Obama.

But at times it was difficult to tell.

He started off by admitting that what he was about to say might not make many of his fellow Democrats happy.

“We have two quality people running for president of the United States,” declared Graham.

“John (McCain), like all of us, is not a perfect person. He can become an emotional person, and can be intimidating,” said Graham, noting he’d served with the Republican presidential candidate in the Senate.

But he said that, as he’d said a year ago, “I would feel comfortable voting for John McCain…”

“I’m confident that either of these candidates will have a high possibility, if not a probability, of at being able to deliver what they say at being president,” said Graham.

But by the end of the speech, it became more clear that Graham was adamantly in the Obama corner.

His remarks shifted to whether people want to see any change in from the past eight years of Republican control of the White House, and in current U.S. international relations, and in health care and energy policies.

He said Obama, not McCain, is the candidate to bring about those changes.

“It will be a different America if Barack Obama is elected president … in every category America will be a different place,” said Graham.

“Barack Obama will start the process,” he said.

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